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The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… PBS SpaceTime explains how electron spin makes matter possible; We could build Martian homes with human blood; Fermilab breaks down the quantum eraser experiment; NASA confirms geologically recent Martian volcanic activity; Do quasar outflows inhibit the formation of stars? Playlist Archive Suggestions, Comments, or Questions
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… A look back on how Judith Resnik and her team built Space Shuttle Discovery‘s robot arm; Saturn‘s core is surprisingly “soupy”; Mars’ “new” volcanic activity; Why some astronomers prefer “snail mail” over the Internet; CfA’s Fabio Pacucci explains Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox! Playlist Archive Suggestions, Comments, or Questions
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… Women Apollo alums remember working at male-dominated NASA; How physicists could detect neutron stars using gravitational waves; Hubble finds evidence of water vapor on Ganymede; Learn how Perseverance takes sterile samples of Martian earth; The Royal Observatory reviews new challenges in astrophotography! Extras… Podcast: Undistracted with Brittany Packnett Cunningham, “The Billionaire Space …
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… SciShow reviews recent research into hypothetical warp drives; A 62-mile wide comet visits from the Oort Cloud; How quantum mechanics might help birds see Earth’s magnetic field; The ESA tests satellite durability in an atmospheric reentry test using a plasma wind tunnel; Cool Worlds investigates the statistical likelihood of life …
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… Smithsonian NASM explains Afrofuturism, a science fiction genre which critiques whiteness in both astronomical institutions and speculative fiction; Team members of NASA’s recently announced Venus missions share their excitement; Fermilab breaks down the history of the discovery of the tau neutrino; Cool Worlds reviews several …
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… Hear the Greek myth of Menippe and Metioche, which explains the origin of comets; Listen to a radio emission recorded in Venus’ atmosphere; Adler Planetarium shows off their mobile telescope in the streets of Chicago; See Curiosity’s shot of a 360 degree view of Mars’ Gale crater; …
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… Seeker explains the ISS’s NICER instrument’s relationship to sextants; ESA proposes recruiting astronauts with disabilities or parastronauts; Dr. Beth Biller discussed the future of photographing exoplanets; SciShow breaks down an alternative hypothesis concerning Mars’ disappearing oceans; Three women at NASA reflect on …
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… SciShow breaks down what’s next for NASA’s Perseverance rover; It’s Okay To Be Smart explains the connection between the theory of special relativity and neuroscience; PBS Space Time reviews the possible discovery of the gravitational wave background; Seeker discusses the exceptional age of Super Earth TOI-561b; …
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… Watch footage of last month’s conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn; Learn how Hubble schedules its observation of the outer planets; Cool Worlds breaks down the implications of potential signal from Proxima Centauri; See views of the surface of Mars from Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter; PBS …
The Wolbach Library wishes good health to everyone during this global crisis. Highlights… Learn how this next-gen satellite will 3D print itself in space; SciShow explains how radioactivity makes planets habitable; The connection between baryon acoustic oscillations and galaxy formation; PBS Space Time asks if time can be reversed; Fermilab considers the multiverse hypothesis! Playlist Archive Suggestions, …